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Enjoy a month of soothing laughs before Campaign 2016 consumes your soul.

  • Added: Jan 31, 2016
  • Length: 49:02
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Just days to go before the 2016 Iowa caucuses and who better to bring us up to speed on what's going on than Kathie Obradovich, the political colum...

Bought by KCCU Radio, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., WXXI Rochester, and Northeast Indiana Public Radio


  • Added: Jan 27, 2016
  • Length: 08:59
  • Purchases: 4

  • Added: Jan 25, 2016
  • Length: 48:55

  • Added: Jan 21, 2016
  • Length: 49:01
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Throughout his long career Sargent Shriver was the ultimate optimist, seeing the good in people. He was the first head of the Peace Corps, architec...

Bought by KCCU Radio, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., WXXI Rochester, and Northeast Indiana Public Radio


  • Added: Jan 20, 2016
  • Length: 08:59
  • Purchases: 4
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What do acting, literature and philosophy have in common with branding, fascism and incarceration? How can the humanities confront the problem of t...

  • Added: Jan 19, 2016
  • Length: 58:22
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Jon Meacham joins the program to discuss his new biography of George H.W. Bush, the 41st president who soared in popularity in the aftermath of the...

Bought by KCCU Radio, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., WXXI Rochester, and Northeast Indiana Public Radio


  • Added: Jan 13, 2016
  • Length: 08:59
  • Purchases: 4
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Crying in politics is not as rare as it once was -- President Obama shed a tear or two this week discussing school children victims of gun violence...

Bought by KCCU Radio, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., WXXI Rochester, and Northeast Indiana Public Radio


  • Added: Jan 06, 2016
  • Length: 08:59
  • Purchases: 4
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Former Vice President Walter Mondale talks about his run for president in 1984, everything from choosing Geraldine Ferraro as the first woman on a ...

Bought by WXXI Rochester, Northeast Indiana Public Radio, WORT, and KCCU Radio


  • Added: Dec 31, 2015
  • Length: 08:59
  • Purchases: 4
Caption: Capitol Steps, Credit: Capitol Steps
Tune in this New Year’s and laugh, because making fun of fourteen candidates is way more fun than simply making fun of two.

Bought by WEKU, KWGS, KSFR, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., and Wisconsin Public Radio


  • Added: Dec 22, 2015
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 5
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In the last Political Junkie for 2015, Abby Livingston of the Texas Tribune reviews last Saturday's Democratic debate in New Hampshire, where Hilla...

Bought by KCCU Radio, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., Northeast Indiana Public Radio, and WXXI Rochester


  • Added: Dec 22, 2015
  • Length: 08:59
  • Purchases: 4
Caption: Host Martha Burk
The so-called “War on Christmas” is in full swing. Militant Christians say the well-known evergreen is a Christian symbol for a Christian holiday, ...

  • Added: Dec 20, 2015
  • Length: 02:30
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We're just two months away from Iowa and New Hampshire, which leads to the question: Why do we care so much about Iowa and New Hampshire? And how ...

Bought by KCCU Radio, WXXI Rochester, and Northeast Indiana Public Radio


  • Added: Dec 15, 2015
  • Length: 08:59
  • Purchases: 3
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With the specter of homegrown terrorism and gun violence in the headlines, and some (one?) presidential candidates said to be employing tactics tha...

Bought by KCCU Radio, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., and WXXI Rochester


  • Added: Dec 09, 2015
  • Length: 08:59
  • Purchases: 3
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If you think the planet is heating up, wait until you see what happens when President Obama and the Republicans clash over the policy proposals aft...

Bought by KCCU Radio, WRST-FM Oshkosh, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., WXXI Rochester, and Northeast Indiana Public Radio


  • Added: Dec 02, 2015
  • Length: 08:59
  • Purchases: 5
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We give thanks for all the idiots in the world. They keep us in business.

  • Added: Nov 24, 2015
  • Length: 52:47
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When you look up at the sky the last thing you probably think about is the law. But space is exactly where the next frontier of law is being played...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio, KALW, and New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Nov 24, 2015
  • Length: 14:42
  • Purchases: 3
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Former Vice President Walter Mondale talks about his run for president in 1984, including his decision to choose Geraldine Ferraro as the first wom...

Bought by KCCU Radio, Northeast Indiana Public Radio, and WXXI Rochester


  • Added: Nov 23, 2015
  • Length: 08:59
  • Purchases: 3
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Do we behave rationally? You might be surprised how often our decision-making deviates from what is in our best interest. Behavioral economist Dan ...

Bought by KNVC Carson City Community Radio, Bandon Community Radio, WMUU-LP, and KCMJ Community Radio


  • Added: Nov 23, 2015
  • Length: 28:30
  • Purchases: 4
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Kathie Obradovich, a political columnist for the Des Moines Register was one of the panelists at the second Democratic presidential debate and she ...

Bought by KCCU Radio, WRST-FM Oshkosh, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., WXXI Rochester, and Northeast Indiana Public Radio


  • Added: Nov 18, 2015
  • Length: 08:59
  • Purchases: 5
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For all the talk about dynasties and a potential Bush vs. Clinton match-up in 2016, Stephen Hess of the Brookings Institution has a new book about ...

Bought by KCCU Radio, WRST-FM Oshkosh, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., WXXI Rochester, and Northeast Indiana Public Radio


  • Added: Nov 11, 2015
  • Length: 08:58
  • Purchases: 5
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Donald Trump, whose lead in the polls appears a bit unsteady, will be hosting Saturday Night Live this weekend but it's not always in every politic...

Bought by KCCU Radio, WRST-FM Oshkosh, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., WXXI Rochester, and Northeast Indiana Public Radio


  • Added: Nov 04, 2015
  • Length: 08:59
  • Purchases: 5
Caption: Host Martha Burk
Halloween is behind us, but I’ve still got some scary news. We’ve started the one-year countdown to election day. We’ve already been bombarded fo...

Bought by KCMJ Community Radio


  • Added: Nov 01, 2015
  • Length: 02:30
  • Purchases: 1
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Two brilliant political strategists, Vin Weber (R) and Anna Greenberg (D) size up their respective presidential fields and share their observations...

Bought by KCCU Radio, WRST-FM Oshkosh, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., WXXI Rochester, and Northeast Indiana Public Radio


  • Added: Oct 28, 2015
  • Length: 08:59
  • Purchases: 5
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Stephen Farnsworth of the University of Mary Washington sums up the reasons for Vice President Joe Biden to take himself out of the mix for 2016, a...

Bought by KCCU Radio, WXXI Rochester, and WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.


  • Added: Oct 21, 2015
  • Length: 08:59
  • Purchases: 3